[open-science] OKF is doing its best to enable text and data mining research

Thu Feb 7 12:30:28 UTC 2013

Thanks, Ross,
these links are very helpful, providing me with more evidences and 
answers to my early question to the list.
Thanks again,
Susanna

Susanna-Assunta Sansone, PhD
skype: susanna-a.sansone
uk.linkedin.com/in/sasansone

University of Oxford e-Research Centre
Principal Investigator, Team Leader
www.isacommons.org|www.biosharing.org

Nature Publishing Group
Consultant, Data Products
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On 07/02/2013 09:33, Ross Mounce wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> sorry for all the announcements today. A lot is happening at the moment.
>
> Not everyone may realise this but the Open Knowledge Foundation is 
> hugely influential:
>
> 1.) On Monday we were in Brussels at the *Licences For Europe 
> meeting*, actively participating in the first Text & Data Mining 
> working group meeting (#Licences4Europe on Twitter). It was largely 
> disappointing that the discussion was framed at the outset to exclude 
> discussion of the type of copyright reform many pro-access groups in 
> the room wanted. We hope this situation will have changed by the next 
> working group meeting. It was accurately described here: 
> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130204/12241621879/eu-commission-wants-more-copyright-licensing-not-creative-commons-fair-use.shtml
>
> 2.) When journalists need quotes from people who know about the state 
> of open knowledge, we're an excellent organisation to ask!
> In the latest edition of Nature I am quoted, representing Open 
> Knowledge Foundation on the subject of Creative Commons licencing of 
> academic research: 
> http://www.nature.com/news/researchers-opt-to-limit-uses-of-open-access-publications-1.12384
>
> The very definition of open access 
> (http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/openaccess/read)
> states that *anyone* must be able to re-use research *without legal 
> barriers*. Thus NC & ND modules of Creative Commons licences if 
> applied do not make that research open access, and they can 
> significantly hinder some re-uses like textmining.
> See Joris Pekel's excellent post on some of the problems of NC for more:
> http://blog.okfn.org/2013/01/08/consequences-risks-and-side-effects-of-the-license-module-non-commercial-use-only-2/
>
>
> Ross
>
> PS I will try and write some of this up in a prettier blogpost on the 
> science.okfn blog soon.
>
>
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